Barry Eichengreen and others have argued that the excessive insistence of the French on "monetary stability" in the 1920s was one of the deeper causes of the worldwide depression starting in 1929.
Grass has been admired not only for his literary talents, but as a moral leader; all of Europe respected his demands (even when excessive, such as his wrong insistence on collective guilt) that Germany and Europe come to terms with the meaning of Auschwitz.
The air of familiarity is thickened by Mr. Kluger's insistence on establishing, in excessive detail, the background for each land acquisition.
For instance, in the case of the Falkland Islanders, Lewis Clifton the Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands, explains: In contrast, for the majority of the Gibraltarian people, who live in Gibraltar, there is an "insistence on their Britishness" which "carries excessive loyalty" to Britain.
The president's handling of Syria, on the other hand, exemplifies every weakness in his foreign policy — from his excessive faith in "engaging" troublesome foreign leaders to his insistence on multilateralism as an end in itself to his self-defeating caution in asserting American power.
Gates's insistence on making all entries bite-size gives excessive weight to some people and seriously shortchanges others.
The insistence on sameness in the case of autism reminds one of it too.
But the Secretary's insistence on the viability of prior international conventions on drugs that still promote excessive law enforcement modalities in an exclusively prohibitionist paradigm sounds a lot like the same ol', same ol' to people of color.
Those persons, for example, who opposed the 1970 Act's insistence on a 90% reduction in auto emission pollutants, on the ground of excessive cost, saw the development of catalytic converter technology that helped achieve substantial reductions without the economic catastrophe that some had feared.
From Herder's point of view, that might seem to be an excessive moralization of an interest in the beautiful that should be entirely natural, although from Kant's point of view Herder's insistence on the continuity of the beautiful and the good might actually run the risk of an excessive moralization of aesthetic experience.
